The growing interest of institutional investors in cryptocurrencies is allied to rising demand for yield on cryptocurrency investments. This necessitates active management, which creates challenges. Neither Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) nor conventional mutual funds issued under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (’40 Act funds) can accommodate actively traded cryptocurrency funds.

A group of digital asset exchanges and one CSD have warned European institutions their blockchain reforms are too slow to compete with the US With reforms not scheduled for implementation until 2030, the group suggests a mini package of liberalising measures within the DLT Pilot Regime sandbox now The proposed “quick fix” reforms will allow DLT Pilot Regime licence holders to tokenise any asset and grow faster for longer before being fully regulated A group of digital asset e

The ECB will accept as collateral for credit tokenised versions of securities and other assets it accepts already The tokenised assets eligible as collateral will initially be non-native only but native assets will become ECB-eligible in future The extension of ECB eligibility to tokenised securities is an opportunity for national and international CSDs with tokenisation platforms The European Central Bank ( ECB ) says it will accept tokenised versions of eligible assets as c

The government of Bermuda is working with Circle and Coinbase to put the island economy on blockchain Circle will provide the USDC Stablecoin and Coinbase the blockchain infrastructure Payments by USDC are merely the starting point for tokenisation of all financial transactions and assets in Bermuda The Government of Bermuda has announced it plans to move the island’s economy on to the blockchain, initially by embracing the USDC Stablecoin issued by Circle as the principal

Lingfeng Capital is listing its Digital Venture Fund (DVF) in token form on the LSEG DMI digital assets platform Archax is providing issuance, connectivity and custody services to make the tokenised fund interoperable with the traditional fund The DVF fund is invested in a variety of fintech businesses funded by Lingfeng Capital The Digital Venture Fund (DVF), a fintech investment fund managed by Beijing-headquartered and Hong Kong-managed Lingfeng Capital , will launch in to

Lloyds Bank issued tokenised sterling deposits onto the Canton Network public blockchain and used them to buy a gilt-edged security from Archax Lloyds ran its own node on the Canton Network rather than rely on the network provider, so retained control of customer service standards Tokenised deposits, unlike Stablecoins, enable users to stay within regulatory perimeters and deposit insurance schemes Lloyds Banking Group , Archax and Canton Network say they have proved that a

Following successful tests as part of the ECB trials, Clearstream has launched a tokenisation platform for clients to issue and settle tokenised securities The earliest users of the tokenisation platform are expected to be issuers of commercial paper and Medium-Term Notes (MTNs) in the Euromarkets D7 DLT, which marks an expansion of the four-and-a-half-year-old D7 issuance platform, is a Cloud-based service supported by Google Cloud Clearstream has added a tokenised securiti